Summer holidays....

  Not long now... actually about 33 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes and some seconds till I'll be in Heathrow with a big smile on my face, a big bag on my other hand pacing through the halls to the central bus station. I can already feel the excitement for getting to see our new house and my flatmates after 4 months!!!

   I am also waiting for the studying to start cause it feels that holidays are much more demanding. Working 30 hours a week, trying to get my driving license, renovating my mom's house, helping people move (twice), taking care of a hell of a load paper work (seriously I feel like I need an assistant) and trying to do what people usually do on holiday. Studying is so much easier!

  I am so exited for Fresher's week!!! Unfortunately I won't be working in the international orientation but I'll be a contact on fresher's week! It's gonna be awesome!

  Also I've been completing a lot of challenges on the summer challenge. Here's a few:

 Brush someones teeth


Surprise someone: We had a surprise birthday in a summer camp to our camp leaders and to the hero of the day Pasko (in front of the picture).


Do a prank to someone. I changed the contacts from my friends phone. It was fun to watch him call to every number who was at the other end. :D                                                                            

This picture is taken in the middle of nowhere. I needed to go back to Helsinki from a summer camp where I am wroking and my friend Vate (on the right) walked me to the bus station through a dark forest. When we finally got to the high way where there were lights we noticed that there was this suspiciously looking guy following us. I got really scared!! He seemed to gain us with every step and I started to think of what could happen. We seriously were in the middle of nowhere and no one would here our screams.
  So we got to the bus stop and I waited with my heart pounding out of my chest. The guy turned around the corner towards us and I saw that he had a knife a size of an arm. At this point my heart was trying to jump out of my mouth and run away. Then the creepy guy raised his knife and started running towards us. Just when I was about to get the hell out of here I noticed that he was wearing a familiar jacket and I realized what was going on and why Vate had been so chill with this. It was our friend Teo (on the left) from the camp. You can imagine how relieved I was!
  The guys did a little prank on me! And with this I do think they won the prank vengeance! :D

 And now I have 33 days, 19 hours, 38 minutes and some seconds...  Here's something for you to check out while you wait for the fresher's week to start: https://www.facebook.com/BrunelMemes

Tips and Challenges

Hello readers!

  I've been really busy (working) for the whole summer.

  So as I told you before we've started a summer challenge with my flat mates. It's a list of 200 challenges. So far I've done 9. Here they are:
 1. Spend a week without Facebook. (I am a real Facebook addict. After doing this I've used it less.)
 2. Stay up late and see the sunrise. (This was a easy one because the sun rises at 4am in Finland.)
 3. Surprise someone. (We held a surprise party for our camps leaders in the least evening of the camp.)
 4. Be in a mosh pit. (I was at a Prodigy gig. It was amazing!)
 5. See a play. (My dad is a director/writer/actor. I went to see play that he directed.)
 6. Have a movie marathon. (I watched 5 episodes of Game of Thrones in a row. I can recommend it to everyone!)
 7. What is the most boring activity you can think of? Do that for an hour. (For me it was watching a football match.)
 8. Crash a party (In Finland it is custom to crash graduation parties.)
 9. Swim with your clothes on. (Did it on the 4th of June. It was like +5.)

  I thought that if anyone reading this is going to Brunel for the first time in September I might give you some tips.

  1. If you are a international student go to the international orientation! You will meet so many people and make friends that will last a life time.
2. On Fresher's week don't be shy. Get out there! Meet people! Go see what is happening on campus because there is A LOT happening!
3. If possible live on campus. It is unfortunate but true that people who live off campus will miss a lot. On campus you'll have nine other people living in the flat with you.
4. When you arrive to your flat leave your door open. People will know that someone has arrived and come say hello.
5. Go to the fresher's fair. There will be a lot of info about clubs and societies + free cool stuff
6. Join those clubs and societies! You will meet a lot of new people doing whatever you like! There is a lot of taster sessions held on the first few weeks so you can go and try what you would like to do during the year.
7. Buy the active Brunel card! It is a really great deal! The card costs £5 and you get to go the the gym and Hillingdon pool twice a week for free at certain hours. Plus there is a lot of aerobics, dance, running and other sports classes for the people who have the Brunel active card. (I hope they still have it next year, because it was a new thing last year.)
8. What you can do before coming is join your courses, complex and Brunel's Facebook groups.

Also: I am going to be working as a international student helper in the international orientation. Come and say hello! :)
  I might also be fresher's contact during fresher's week if I'll be able to do both!
  I am already looking forward to it!


Have a great summer everyone! :)

Revision

Hey Sweeties!

  Exam week number two going on and it is amazing how much other things you can find to do when you are supposed to be revising! Find those great 90's songs you used to watch from MTV as a kid, start making a board game, run around the hall and then in the rain without shoes, invent summer challenges (more of that later) or goof around with your flatmates. I've done all of this and still had time to study! I had my first exam today (stats) and I think I did okay. We'll see! 

This is from last week. Just chilling in the corridor between revision! 

Today in the kitchen, when I was chatting with my lovelies, it hit me that we only have 2 weeks left in this flat! Of course we will be back in September but not in this flat, not on Campus, not as the same people as we came here! We've all changed so much over the year, at least I have! I really wonder how it was possible to get to know, share everything and learn to love all of these wonderful people in just one year!? It feels like we have shared already a life time together!

But enough of the bittersweet mumbo-jumbo for now (there will be a lot of that on the last week). Exams are on we still need to do our best for a week. After that we'll have the social science students end of year boat party, packing, writing (and hiding) letters for the next lucky attendants of flat 27, freezer emptying brunch (seriously we have no idea what's in there and whose it is) and finally the last party of flat 27. I just said that I'll probably hug the wall and say thank you before I leave! :D 

On another note, my mom, nan and brother visited me for 4 days. It was so nice to show them the campus and London. It was my brother's first trip abroad ever and he was really impressed. He even took part in our late night conversations! Combining to worlds is always bizarre, but nice at the same time! I even went to London eye for the first time in my life even though I've lived here for a year and visited several times before! 

My brother and nan at Piccadilly circus

Also, I want to tell you about the summer challenge! I've made a list of challenges and everyone who wants to participate bet a few pounds that they can complete the most challenges. Obviously the winner gets the pot. The challenges are dares like: tap a random person on shoulder, say: ''tag, you're it'' and run away, swim with your clothes on, crash a party and so on. At the moment we have 144 challenges. I'll try to get it to 200 and on June 1st the challenge starts! I'll probably post the list (when it is released) and some evidence of my success on the challenges later! 

Tomorrow I have research methods exam and it's only 30 minutes, so I am not too nervous! Next week I'll have individual and social process & brain and cognition exams. Then the first year is done! Time really flies by!!!